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The BBC has unveiled the first images of Small Axe, its period drama from 12 Years A Slave director Steve McQueen. Amazon has U.S. rights. The series, which is set in London's West Indian community between the 1960s-80s, stars Black Panther's Letitia Wright and Star Wars' John Boyega Malachi Kirby (Roots), Shaun…

Trevor Noah jumped on the celebrity feud bandwagon Monday night to offer his take on President Trump's Twitter war with John Legend and Chrissy Teigen. In case you’re not up on Trump’s latest celebrity beef, he went on a Twitter tirade Sunday, targeting the musician and his wife. The president was upset that NBC…

Stephen Colbert fought to find the right words to describe his utter shock over President Trump’s planned — and since scuttled — meeting with the Taliban. Trump revealed Saturday on Twitter that he suspended secret weekend peace negotiations at Camp David with the president of Afghanistan and Taliban leaders, after…

Dwayne Johnson says his friend and co-star Kevin Hart is doing well after a car accident on September 1. “Everything is good, I spoke with Kevin, I actually refer to him as my son,” Johnson joked Monday on the debut episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show. “I connected with him today.” The former wrestler and the comedian…

Disney+ will not be proceeding with Muppets Live Another Day, its scripted comedy series project written/executive produced by Frozen star Josh Gad and Once Upon a Time creators Adam Horowitz and Eddy Kitsis. The ABC Signature-produced comedy, which had been in the works at Disney’s upcoming streaming platform for…

Today a special all-Joker edition of the Hero Nation Index. The Joker is wild again in Hollywood. Todd Phillips’ Joker was nothing short of a sensation at the 76th Venice Film Festival where its premiere earned the Golden Lion award, a slew of rave…

Ted Summers, a television editor whose credits included Barney Miller, General Hospital and the broadcast of Alice Cooper: Welcome to My Nightmare, for which he won an Emmy Award, has died. He was 82. Summers passed away today of a heart attack in Santa Clarita, California, his family said. The Texas native was born…

The September 4 season six finale of TV Land's series Younger scored the hit comedy’s top rating for a season ender among Women 25-54 (1.4 in Live+3). The closer, which drew 1.2 million total viewers in L+3,  scored season highs among several key demos, including P25-54 (.89 rating), W18-49 (1.1) and P18-49 (.70)…

With one week to go before WGA West ballots are counted, Oscar-winning screenwriter Callie Khouri is urging writers to re-elect the guild's current leadership and “stand together” to win the WGA's five-month battle with Hollywood's talent agencies. Khouri, who won the Oscar for Thelma & Louise, said in an email blast…

EXCLUSIVE: Daytime Emmy winner Obba Babatundé (Dear White People) is set for a recurring role opposite Reese Witherspoon, Kerry Washington, Rosemarie DeWitt and Joshua Jackson in Little Fires Everywhere, Hulu's upcoming limited series based on Celeste Ng's bestselling book. Developed and written by Casual's Liz…

One America News Network, one of the rivals to Fox News for right-leaning viewers, filed a defamation claim against Comcast, MSNBC and Rachel Maddow on Monday, over Maddow’s claim that the conservative channel “really, literally is paid Russian propaganda.” The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in San Diego (read…

Steve Harvey is joining a takeover of AXS TV and HDNet Movies, two long-striving cable networks long owned by Mark Cuban. Anthem Sports & Entertainment is acquiring a majority in the two networks, which specialize in music, sports, entertainment and lifestyle programming. AXS TV began life as HDNet, which launched in…